Re: ProFile drive

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <1997Aug16.121320.1397@lafn.org>,
James Poore <aw133@lafn.org> wrote:

>>    The Profile controller card is a rather rare beast; it's one of
>>the very few bidirectional parallel interface cards for the Apple
>>II. These cards appear to be scarcer than the actual drives nowadays,
>>as judging by your and many other posts.
>>
>Jus outta curiosity, would these controller cards serve any purpose in 
>perhaps adding a parallel-port tape-backup unit in the II's?

Someone asked the same thing a few months ago. The consensus at that time is
that it's a whole lot easier to use SCSI devices than to locate a hard to find
Profile card and try to hack it to where it can do other stuff.

>I know there would probably be some software hacking involved in getting 
>data in and out thru a parallel card, but hey that what challenges are 
>made of.

All I can say is that my Profile cards (two of the Apple III variety and one
Apple II card) will never have anything but Profiles connected to 'em.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
shack@frii.com